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Cruel Tories: Bed tax not about the money
McVey reveals true Con-Dem agenda to inflict housing misery on the poor

A Tory minister unmasked the real motivation behind the cruel bedroom tax yesterday by admitting the policy was never about saving taxpayers' cash.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) revealed stripping Britain's poorest tenants of housing benefit has saved the Treasury £1 million a day since last April.

But Tory Employment Minister Esther McVey admitted yesterday that the policy "was never all about saving money" - a claim at odds with the line her government used.

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